barry novibes

ground fourteen - the butchers arms for droylsden v west didsbury and chorlton in the rearranged manchester premier cup quarter-final. £7, attendance 390. very one-sided despite there being a level between the two sides. plenty of gallows humour in the away end as it threatens to go a bit tits. 4-0.

donnarumma, khusanov, dias, guehi, ait-nouri, rodri, bernardo, cherki, foden, marmoush, semenyo.

can we just have a solid twenty minutes from jjb on villa?

must've been stood right by us.

at droylsden. don't like giving dave pace money because he's one of the biggest cunts in the non-leagues but it's only around the corner. easily the loudest p.a in football. did my usual circling of the ground beforehand, 'if you don't know me by now' by simply red blaring out across the whole town.

duncan jenkins would've never.

'janet...frimfton'.

can't be arsed working out if mozzarella was partly based on a player, but strongly agree that irrespective of that it would be a left-winger.

made the mistake of saying i thought it was pure hackneyed shite and inferior to reece dinsdale's i.d on here a few months back and the bert grandads were all up in arms.

i don't think people should be too judgemental about this statement until they've spent some time living in wigan.

we should beat this real madrid side over two legs. lost to getafe, albacete, osasuna and a very average benfica now since mid january, quite a few injuries, very angsty and ill-disciplined even by their standards. they can always do you on vibes, and they've still got individual quality, but...

not how the song goes, but a terrific gesture nonetheless.

only two football clubs would ever get this sort of treatment after playing well for five weeks...

YouTube video by Official Arctic Monkeys Arctic Monkeys - There’d Better Be A Mirrorball (Official Video)

it's a fine track. they lost me a bit after the third record or so, but honestly think this single from a couple of years ago is a remarkable piece of songwriting as well. looking forward to his scott walker period.
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ignoring the fact that he's nowhere near good enough, are we not even factoring this sort of stuff in before making signings any more?

YouTube video by Moby Moby - 'Tallinn' (Official Audio)

out of morbid curiosity i listened to the new moby record. haven't heard anything of him since he was a bit weird in his book. it's really good. bit of play-era type material early doors, but second half of it's just very decent largely piano-based modern classical stuff.
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surely they should go to the nearest safe country?

they're doing a british version of saturday night live? has the world not had enough bad news, fuck me.

who, of the football weekly podders, is least enthusiastic about having to come into the office again and the seemingly urgent pivot to video?

Dublin airport will be like the film Heat.

he's the standout player from the academy, even ahead of mukasa. loved watching him over recent months. he's got to grow into his body a bit yet, but very accomplished. less worried about a pathway because stones and ake will leave, gvardiol might move back to full-back, and he'll overtake alleyne.

interesting listening to a forest supporter on one of the national podcasts today saying elliot anderson hasn't had a good game for them in three or four months, when most of our fans online don't stop harping on about how he's the best thing since sliced bread and would improve us instantly.

tudor at spurs has the potential to be absolutely box office. getting late stage jose at united vibes. already starting to suspect he might not see out the season.

the far right are petrified because they know that if elections are fought based on anything other than the culture war nonsense that fuels their base they'll lose.

never seen this pasta before. should be called bigatoni. absolutely rubbish.

almost every week, man. sick joke.

good luck to arsenal. you can see how they've got to the point of being so risk-averse and reliant on set-pieces after being more expansive and falling short. but to spend that much money amassing a squad like that and for it to all be so rudimentary and joyless is sort of impressive in a weird way.

refreshing honesty. ultimately whatever gets a team over the line will justify the tactics and bar the truly swashbuckling sides the history books don't remember aesthetics anyway. it's a bit mad that he's reduced such a fun, technical squad to football so joyless, but it's worked for other coaches.

heh.

there are certain clubs you don't bank on giving you a hand in a title race, and chelsea are one of them. unless something really out of the ordinary happens, expect arsenal to win today. there's only one way for city to win the title, that's by winning, realistically, nine of the last ten games.